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Equinix will open four new International Business Exchange (IBX) data centres in Tokyo, Dallas, São Paulo and Sydney, to create more capacity for global companies to connect to their partners, customers and employees.

Equinix said it will invest more than $4.5 billion in acquisitions in 2016, including the Telecity purchase price. In total, the expansion adds more than 3 million square feet of colocation space in 37 data centres, expanding Equinix’s global platform to nearly 150 data centres by the end of the year.

This expansion builds on the global growth Equinix experienced in 2015, a year in which it added five new data centres in key economic hubs including New York, London, Singapore, Melbourne and Toronto.

Since then, the company has made two large acquisitions – Bit-isle in Japan (for $275M) in November 2015 and Telecity Group in EMEA (for $3.8B) completed in January 2016.

The four upcoming data centers will add more than 4,000 new cabinets and 200,000 square feet of white space when fully built out. This will bring Equinix’s total global footprint to 14m square feet, increasing the scale of the company’s Platform Equinix by more than 27 percent year-over-year.

The new SY4 data centre will enable Equinix’s Australian customers to take advantage of hybrid cloud architectures. SY4 will be located near the central business district, with access to Southern Cross Cable Head, providing network interconnection in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region.

Meanwhile, the Silverwater data centre that services NSW government agencies has secured the first 4.5 star NABERS rating ever handed to an Australian data centre, making it officially the greenest facility in the country.

It has been a long journey for the state government and its data centre partner Metronode since NABERS testing began at the western Sydney site in August 2014. NABERS assessment requires a minimum 12 month period of measurement.

The state’s energy efficiency policy demands that NSW government data centres meet a minimum 4.5 star rating by June 2017. Check out all the latest data centre news in CCN's upcoming data centre feature in the April edition of the magazine.

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